Pierrot and Columbine / Margaret DeLaughter

Pierrot and Columbine, by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), 1900. Courtesy Cultured Arm.

Pierrot and Columbine  (1921)  by Margaret DeLaughter

from Poetry, August 1921

Pierrot and Columbine

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The gods are dead, and we are old;

 And we are old, for now at last,	

For now at last our hearts are cold;

 Our hearts are cold, and love is past.	

Our love is past, and even so,

 And even so our dreams have fled.	

Our dreams have fled, and so we know,

 And so we know the gods are dead!	

This poem is in the public domain